#Cyberpunk

I think “cyberpunk” has grown past narrow definitions. If you’re putting BLADE RUNNER, GHOST IN THE SHELL (the Oshii), and AKIRA under the same umbrella, that’s a weird umbrella. Not
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Ok hear me out. I actually have a theory on why there's so many dildos near garbage cans and in alleys in Cyberpunk 2077. A thread. 1/4 They only use
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Or, OR. The scope of cyberpunk you've personally explored is trite, stagnant, and this analysis is based on a cursory understanding of something you were never really interested in in
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Hot take:It is literally impossible to create meaningful cyberpunk anymore, no matter who writes it or what their intentions, because the *real world* is very very very literally now a
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I have a hypothesis that cyberpunk RPGs don't work well because having a bunch of trusted, competent companions runs against the genre's major theme of alienation and deprivation. That's why
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IGN's review for Cyberpunk 2077 starts by outright saying that CDPR wouldn't let them use their own gameplay footage for the review yet...Big. Yikes. Apparently Keanu Reeves is stiff compared
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Cyberpunk as a genre has a lot roots in: orientalism, fetishization of asian culture, and weird reductions of different groups. That doesn't make the genre bad or cancelled. it just
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“Cyberpunk” is more than an aesthetic, and “cybernetics” has very little to do with bionic human augmentation. Cybernetics is a broad field of study about information feedback loops. The “cybernetic
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I’m so tired of this stupid“what ~true~ Cyberpunk is about discourse”, because Cyberpunk is about NOTHING. It’s a goddamn genre. No genre has an inherent message, unless you think all
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Re: Cyberpunk as a genre of rpgs. To actually be cyberpunk, characters should view an injustice in society as something they're railing against, and everyone they interact with should also
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The orientalism and xenophobia in relation to a US-centric fear of Japanese globalism isn't new to Cyberpunk 2077, and isn't new to the Cyberpunk genre at all. 2077 seems really
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Crunch is terrible, and a failure of management. When things turn from "crunch up to a date" to a "crunch to a repeatedly moving date", it's referred to as a
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Here is the team behind Cyberpunk telling you they knew their game was a broken mess on consoles but they shipped it anyway - without showing it to anyone -
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Modern cyberpunk's problem isn't dystopia. Cyberpunk fiction has always had dystopia. Punks need a bad world to resist.Modern cyberpunk's problem is tone. Feels like there's more stories of surrender /
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If you are trying to request a refund of Cyberpunk 2077, especially after the studio said it would “help,” please let me know what your experience has been like. DMs
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I think one of the greatest takeaways from Cyberpunk's release is actually something I teach my students; the audience you cater to is the audience that responds to you. CDPR
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